Antoine Laurent

“Gods in Translations”: The MAP project at the EABS Annual Conference (Warsaw)

We are pleased to announce that the MAP project organizes a Workshop at the Annual Conference of the European Association of Biblical Studies (EABS), that will take place at the University of Warsaw from the 11th to the 14th August 2019. The Workshop is entitled “Gods in Translations: The Many Names of Ancient Semitic Gods” …

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Stèle funéraire de marbre pentélique trouvée à l'Ouest d'Athènes dans le Céramique. Une Athénienne est assise sur une chaise avec un repose pieds et regarde un bijou tenu de la main droite et peint à l'origine. En face d'elle se tient une esclave tenant une boîte à bijoux ouverte. D'après l'inscription sur l'épistyle, la défunte est Hegeso, fille de Proxenos : la qualité du travail indique une famille noble, et l'œuvre a été attribuée au sculpteur Callimaque. Fin du Ve s. av. J.-C.

« Women who matter / Elles comptent aussi »

Naming women. About the International meeting “Women who matter / Elles comptent aussi”. Paris, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne/Paris, INHA, Saturday 17th November 2018.   This meeting gave the opportunity to present the Eurykleia database, which is in progress. It aims at reassessing the issue of naming women by overcoming ancient or modern prejudices. Which were the …

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Which digital tools for which historical issues?

Which digital tools for which historical issues? “Histoire et numérique” Workshop for Master students, organized by Karine Karila-Cohen. Rennes, University of Rennes 2, December 10, 2018. This workshop brought together historians from various periods and historical fields, as well as hard science researchers used to work with HSS data. It provided an opportunity to introduce Master of …

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Ivoire de style phénicien de Nimrud (IXe-VIIe siècle av.n.è.). Musée de Sulaymaniyah, Iraq.

The Face and the Name: goddesses as “interface”

In occasion of the workshop “In the footsteps of Claude Calame”, which took place in Paris on November 10th, 2018, Corinne Bonnet proposed a reflection on how onomastic attributes can be used to express an intimate link between a goddess and a god. Why is Astarte called “Name of Baal” in Ugaritic and Phoenician texts? …

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Who does not have his Minotaur? Venture into the labyrinth of myths

Conference as part of the festival The future human, Toulouse May 18, 2018 Corinne Bonnet, Adeline Grand-Clément, Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge Coming from a very human woman and a bull of divine origin, the Minotaur concentrates in its hybridity the excess (hybris) that gave birth to it. Between Crete and Athens, the stories of the labyrinth test and the …

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